Slideshow
16mm TENEMENT TREASURES FROM THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
Monday, February 16
5:30
The Game
U.S., 1967
Directed and Produced byRoberta Hodes
Based on a play by George Houston Bass
Approx. 17 min.
Black and Puerto Rican teenagers act out their lives in the shadows of their tenements in the New York City ghetto.
A Storm of Strangers
U.S., 1970
Directed by Ben Maddow
Narrated by Herschel Bernardi
Approx. 26 min.
Provides a personal narrative of the Jewish experience in America. Herschel Bernardi explains how the Jewish East Side deliberately abolished itself through hard work, union organizations and the desire “ to be American.” Uses period photographs, archival footage, and the recollections of an immigrant family told in the ethnic idiom of the time.
Mural on Our Street
U.S., 1964
Directed by Kirk Smallman
Approx. 18 min.
Shows children and other members of the Henry Street Settlement House as they make drawings of zoo animals for a large tile mural to be used in a new building in their neighborhood. Follows the processes involved in making the tiles and shows views of the completed mural.
Life in New York
U.S., 1969
Directed by Alfonso Pagan, Luis Vale
Approx. 6 min.
Made by teenagers, this film is an exhortation to the people of the Lower East Side in New York City to unite and improve their neighborhoods. Shots of fashionable Park Avenue are intercut with shots of garbage-filled empty lots and drug abuse on the Lower East Side throughout this strong indictment of socio-economic disparity.
